That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.
AISHA HINDSI was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
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I almost believe that Harriet Tubman asked God for a leave like, “I’m gonna need to go back down there and take care of some things. They’re in trouble.”
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man.
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I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.
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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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Her spirit is one that we absolutely need today, as we face odds that are akin to the divisive and systemic oppression that we read about in our history books, but it’s taken on a modern-day articulation of itself.
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An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.
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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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